An experienced Studio MDHR title player breaks all records without tricks and to the disbelief of its creators.
An experienced speedrunner known as SBDWolf has managed to complete Cuphead in the incredible 23 minutes without resorting to any kind of trick or bug in the game; This has been shared by the IGN medium through its YouTube channel in a section known as Devs react to Speedruns, in which they invite the developers of video games to whom they subject to the relentless ability of the best speedrunners in the world. And on this occasion, the creators of the celebrated shoot'em up action platforms and retro-animated aesthetics do not credit such an amazing feat at the controls of its creation.
Record speedrun with own techniques
Thus, the speedrunner SBDWolf manages to defeat all the Cuphead bosses in a time of 23 minutes, all following the rules of the game and without resorting to game bugs or exploits. So much so, that the player has managed to find really elaborate routines to take full advantage of the mechanics of the title, such as blocking bosses at very specific times to drain their health to the maximum, taking damage at specific times to boost certain frames or anticipate to certain attacks of the rivals to cause more damage in the shortest possible time.
As the video reveals, even the Moldenhauer brothers, authors of Cuphead, are surprised with the player's ability, discovering routines that they themselves had not contemplated. Of course, they recognize that when developing the game they had thought about speedrunners adding certain situations that could benefit the most skillful players with steel reflections.
It is also worth noting that the version used in speedrun is 1.0, a version that does not accumulate patches released later that may adjust errors or certain situations in the title itself.
Cuphead is now available on PC, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, awaiting its expected expansion The Delicious Last Course, originally planned for 2019 but that has not yet reached the market, with new phases and a new protagonist. On the other hand, a physical format version is expected to arrive for Xbox One and Switch along with the DLC, with all content included.
